The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Research shows that having a supportive adult can significantly reduce incidences of suicide among LGBTQ+ young people, and that LGBTQ+ students who are exposed to positive representations of gay and transgender people and history report performing better in school. “If They know that I’m there for them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Celeste Lay, a political science professor at Tulane University who studies education policy. “I What happens with the Leah Chase School is a litmus test for a school system that was once considered failing in most metrics, and it will likely determine how it operates future schools, and when. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

In 2016, Rabalais, a well-connected, self-described charter school proponent, had learned that the Gentilly Terrace Elementary School would be closing its doors at the end of the school year — making the campus a blank canvas for a new kind of school. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

Political Science from UC Riverside and is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Imperial Valley College. Dr. Cauchon specializes in International Relations and Political Theory, with a focus on environmental justice and transnational social movements. in Political Science from Richland Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It follows a long history of neglect of rural areas by many colleges and universities. It’s also getting worse, down from 61 percent in 2016 , the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center says. Credit: Austin Anthony/The Hechinger Report That’s a smaller proportion than suburban students. I hate that they didn’t see it before.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Sitting around a big oak table, Epstein and I dust off the 1966 leather-bound course catalog and compare it to the 2016 paperback. Kirk: As we flip through the 2016 catalog.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Extant theories suggest that these actions should have pushed racial and ethnic minority voter support for the GOP candidate to its lowest observed levels in contemporary political history. Yet Trump outperformed these expectations in 2016 and in 2020 among Black, Latino, and Asian American voters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. The governor would get his wish, but it would take another four years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

School administrators note that from 2014-15 to 2016-17, pass rates more than doubled, from 10 percent to 21 percent, on NWEA, another set of exams used by districts across the country. That policy contributed to the racial tensions that fed a 1917 riot, one of the deadliest in the country’s history. It is a common story. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

By the 1960s, the American Petroleum Institute was looking to shake its reputation as a “monopoly which reaped excessive profits” and set out to cultivate a network of “thought leaders” that included educators, journalists, politicians and even clergy, according to an organizational history copyrighted by API in 1990. The idea caught on.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

They took in a slide presentation on the history of the death penalty (the Code of Hammurabi, views of the Founding Fathers). Then came verbal guidelines. People have good intentions and genuinely believe what they say,” Westa announced. Keep an open mind.”. I want to engage people in honest conversation.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

And while voters aged 18 to 24 broke for the Democrat in 2016 , they did so less enthusiastically than they had done for Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008. Political science major Tabitha Pitzer, 20, showed up here with a few close friends at 1:45 a.m. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

That proportion was up by more than 8 percentage points from 2016 , and has been closing in on the voting rate for adults of all ages. The political division they’ve witnessed hasn’t discouraged young voters, said LoMonte, a sophomore political science major from Bloomfield, New Jersey, who was wearing a “TCNJ Votes” T-shirt.

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